Edward Scissortongue fell in love with hip hop music after seeing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie at the cinema. That was in 1990. He wasn’t sure what it was about the music that he especially liked at the time, what he did know was he enjoyed watching Leonardo and Co. kick the shit out of Shredder and his footsoldiers to the sound of Partners in Kryme.

Fast forward three years and Edward Scissortongue finds a CD under a bush when on a walk with his Granddad. It was Wu-Tang Clan's 36 Chambers. It was the first CD ...read more

Edward Scissortongue fell in love with hip hop music after seeing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie at the cinema. That was in 1990. He wasn’t sure what it was about the music that he especially liked at the time, what he did know was he enjoyed watching Leonardo and Co. kick the shit out of Shredder and his footsoldiers to the sound of Partners in Kryme.

Fast forward three years and Edward Scissortongue finds a CD under a bush when on a walk with his Granddad. It was Wu-Tang Clan's 36 Chambers. It was the first CD he ever owned. On dusting the disc off and sticking it in the player, it became abundantly clear that rap music was not just MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice, but was in fact a never ending galaxy involving far more interesting players than the chart toppers alone. Blown away by the anger and hate on display, Edward Scissortongue took the CD home for 'research' – his Granddad couldn’t understand a word of the barrings anyway. It was a seminal moment. The investigations have continued to this day.

Edward Scissortongue has only two aims as a musician; one, to have fun and two, to play with the visions, patterns, words, ideas, themes and arrangements that dominate his thoughts each and every single day of his strange life. It is both as simple and as complex as that.

The human brain is the most complex object in the galaxy and Edward Scissortongue's music represents his battle with the pictures behind his eyeballs. That is all it is and all it ever will be. « hide